Driven to know
It's a fever and always has been. Explore. Investigate. Research. Live for knowledge.
Why are things the way they are? What makes things tick? How did the present come out of the past? Why do I do what I do? What is the basic truth of any matter?
You would think I'd have jumped right in to formal education. I didn't. If fact I was always studying things that had nothing to do with my schooling right through college. Not surprisingly my grades were mediocre, but I was excited to have learned a great deal about the subjects I had assigned myself. My career in broadcast electronics had nothing to do with my formal education but a great deal to do with my early obsession with radio and TV, not the programs that could be received, but the technology and the miraculous ability of electromagnetic waves to be reflected through the atmosphere around the world.
This blog is being created as a result of my decision to leave Facebook. The penalty for doing that is a loss of many FB friends and very limited exposure, but that has nothing to do with the basis for writing; my endless curiosity about everything (but sports).
For me, a retiree, there is never a moment of boredom or a question of what to do with my time. This has been the case since the first memories of my life. I always have two or three things I want to do such as reading, writing, bicycle riding, learning to play piano (at least so far, I enjoy it!), fixing something that is broken or simply following the news of the day. I must not forget interacting with my delightful grandkids!
For one with my insatiable curiosity, now is THE time to be alive with so much information on everything easily available. That I can never know it all is no problem. I can never share Alexander's lament that there is no world left to conquer. It also helps to know, as I experience my body aging, that the brain is often the last thing to go. Astaire lost his dancing ability, Sinatra lost his voice, every sports star loses his or her special talent, but it is possible to be mentally acute to the end, in fact that seems to be characteristic of thinkers. Thinking improves with exercise and you can't overdo it.
I will be writing about anything and everything. Perhaps I can infect you with my pleasurable obsession. It's a very valuable trait to have in a democracy.
Why are things the way they are? What makes things tick? How did the present come out of the past? Why do I do what I do? What is the basic truth of any matter?
You would think I'd have jumped right in to formal education. I didn't. If fact I was always studying things that had nothing to do with my schooling right through college. Not surprisingly my grades were mediocre, but I was excited to have learned a great deal about the subjects I had assigned myself. My career in broadcast electronics had nothing to do with my formal education but a great deal to do with my early obsession with radio and TV, not the programs that could be received, but the technology and the miraculous ability of electromagnetic waves to be reflected through the atmosphere around the world.
This blog is being created as a result of my decision to leave Facebook. The penalty for doing that is a loss of many FB friends and very limited exposure, but that has nothing to do with the basis for writing; my endless curiosity about everything (but sports).
For me, a retiree, there is never a moment of boredom or a question of what to do with my time. This has been the case since the first memories of my life. I always have two or three things I want to do such as reading, writing, bicycle riding, learning to play piano (at least so far, I enjoy it!), fixing something that is broken or simply following the news of the day. I must not forget interacting with my delightful grandkids!
For one with my insatiable curiosity, now is THE time to be alive with so much information on everything easily available. That I can never know it all is no problem. I can never share Alexander's lament that there is no world left to conquer. It also helps to know, as I experience my body aging, that the brain is often the last thing to go. Astaire lost his dancing ability, Sinatra lost his voice, every sports star loses his or her special talent, but it is possible to be mentally acute to the end, in fact that seems to be characteristic of thinkers. Thinking improves with exercise and you can't overdo it.
I will be writing about anything and everything. Perhaps I can infect you with my pleasurable obsession. It's a very valuable trait to have in a democracy.
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